Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
News

The wait is over! We're thrilled to share with you that Abby Cunnane will be joining us as Manutaki Director Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery in January 2025.

Exciting news that our catalogue for Energy Work Kathy Barry Sarah Smuts-Kennedy edited by Christina Barton has been Highly Commended in the 2024 AWAPA (Art Writing & Publishing Awards) awards in the category of Best University Art Museum Exhibition Catalogue.

Congratulations to this year's 2024 Parkin New Art Prize winner Matt Tini with his work sitters I (2022). sitters I will become part of Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection.

Congratulations to artist Matthew Galloway on being selected as one of the 2025 McCahon House Parehuia artists in residence alongside Rowan Panther and Sefton Rani! Check out some of Matthew's work as displayed earlier this year in our exhibition Infrastructure: power, politics and imagination.

December
10

Gordon H Brown Lecture 2024 - Dr Nina Tonga Moonwalking: Making Radical Art Histories in the Pacific

11

Group discussion - Roundtable talanoa

15

Last day of Vaiei Tupuna

15

Last day gallery is open for 2024

16

Gallery closed for exhibition changeover

January
31

Summer exhibitions opening reception - A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa and Leap to the Place of Two Pools

February
01

First day of exhibitions for 2025 - A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa and Leap to the Place of Two Pools

06

Gallery closed for Waitangi Day